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Friday, January 11 2002

Radio Crankypants #2: I am so totally ready to believe that Radio Userland is as easy

as everyone says it is. The sheer number of Joe User's Radio Weblog listings on the weblogs.com sidebar is testimony enough of that. But it doesn't explain why I've spent the last hour and a half rebooting the computer, re-installing the program three times and downloading it twice and finally reacquainting myself with the Frontier debugger. And still, nothing. This must be some kind of a joke for having been such a sourpuss, today...

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Radio Crankypants #1: Let it never be said that I have a problem with aggregating data.

But I've been watching the growth of Radio Userland weblogs with their handy-dandy blog yer newsfeeds feature and I don't like what I'm seeing. It seems sort of unfair to "beat up" on Userland on what looks to be their big shipping day but it is important to make the distinction that this is not an issue with the technology, per se, but with the way people are using it. (Yeah yeah, don't say it. The medium is the message. I know; I'm from Canada.) Not to make too fine a point of it: too many of the Radio weblogs I see are just plain boring. Boring not because the people running them are boring but because the constant recycling of rss feed data just reeks of laziness and group-think. It's the same thing, website after website without so much as a peep of personal reaction. The only thing that seems to change is the position of the post on a given webpage. Again, it is important to recognize that this is not a new thing. However, the technology at hand -- when you stop and step away from the whiz-banginess of it all -- seems poised to only exacerbate the problem. Which is too bad.

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Ron Gilmour : Taxonomic Markup Language

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David Brownell : Producing SAX2 Events

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : comboable

something that is able to be made into a combo. Used in Pool games.
ex. "That shot looks comboable"

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : countervail

Countervail \Coun"ter*vail`\ (koun"t?r-v?l`), n. Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital. [Obs.] Surely, the present pleasure of a sinful act is a poor countervail for the bitterness of the review. --South. web1913
countervail v 1: compensate for or counterbalance; "offset deposits and withdrawals" [syn: {offset}] 2: oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions; "This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues" [syn: {counteract}, {neutralize}, {counterbalance}] wn

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